Browser Surprise

This is a project I did with my dear friend Melanie Hoff. So far, it has only been used once in a controlled environment, but here is what it is:

Browser Surprise is a Chrome Extension. When installed, every x amount of time, while browsing, a new tab pops up (accompanied by Melanie and I singing "Browser Surprise" in various pitches, listen below). The tab opens with a website that a randomly selected other user of the extension, on his computer, is browsing (surprise!) at that same point in time.

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Graphic: Browser Surprise surprises you with what others are browsing.
Audio: Melanie and I, practising for Browser Surprise's sound effects.

The extension proved especially interesting when used by people in a shared space, altering browsing behaviour in both a restrictive way...